I have a 11+ year old 12 core HPE prolient g7 with 6 ssds in a two vdev raidz1 zfs pool. The power consumption is more than if I just rented from herzner :(
Ask HN: What hardware are you running for your home server?
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#32Skull Canyon NUC (Skylake, the gamery one with the literal skull on it).
Synology NAS with a bunch of 16TiB drives.
Runs basically everything I want including a gitlab instance (which is externally accessible: https://git.drk.sc )
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#33Home server is house in an Inter-tech 4u4416, a crappy case, don't buy.
A supermicro motherboard with a 1.6 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2603v3 CPU. 32 GiB ECC memory.
Operating system on a 256 GiB samsung SSD. Main storage on 8x12 TiB HGST HUH721212ALE604 in zfs raidz2 Secondary (backup) storage on 4x5 TiB HGST HDN726050ALE614, zfs zraid2 (only some things are backed up to this). Storage controllers are just plain sata controllers on the motherboard + 2x pcie sata controllers.
Tertiary backup storage on supermicro server that I got for cheap, actually a faster machine, only 16 GiB ram, but 2x xeons, faster ones. That chassis has 36 disk slots on SAS backplanes and SAS controller.. But the machine is older and uses more electricity so I only manually turn it on every 2 months to sync (using zfs send/recv), the disks in that is whatever random stuff I find.
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#34TrueNAS Scale might be worth looking at.
https://www.truenas.com/truenas-mini/ for a desktop or shelf sized unit, those are actually quite nice, and repairable with off the shelf hardware.
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#35I used this and built my own. https://mitxpc.com/products/mitx-4125a
If you want to buy hardware for this and not reuse something old, Intel embedded ITX boards are the way. Chipsets J1900, J4125, N6005, or the newest N100. Cheap, low power, x86, standard PC parts, great performance (magnitudes more than SBC-s/RPi-s).
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#362U rack mount with AMD EPYC 7443P, 512GB of RAM, 8x12TB IronWolf Pro, 2x 960 U.2 Samsung MZQL2960HCJR for ZFS L2ARC + ZIL, 2x 256GB M.2 Samsung MZVLB256HBHQ for rootfs and 2x crappy Samsung SATA SSDs for VMs.
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#37I keep 2x ~150 USD machines at home; 1 active, 1 cold spare. Current active is Dell 3020 w/ 4th gen i5-4590 3.3GHZ Quad-Core, 8 GB RAM. It has been enough for nextcloud, jellyfin, home assistant, backups. I think it averages about 30w
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#38Love my synology, I’ve been using it for 12 years now. I will upgrade at some point to latest 4bay version
I used to have a QNAP and replaced it with a Synology, but I was actually a little disappointed with the software when it came to the disk management. I had a funny collection of disks capacities and Synology has fewer options when it comes to volume spanning and RAID.
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#39> I was thinking maybe some small thinkcenter or dell micro PCs + a NAS (Thinking QNAP because they are cheaper). Lower TDP would be great too. Power costs are a concern. Thinking about Nextcloud, plex, jellyfin, home assistant, local backups, etc...
My use cases are similar to yours, and I recently "upgraded" from an 8-bay QNAP NAS filled with 4TB drives (RAID 6) to a 2-bay QNAP NAS (TS-233) with very large hard drives (RAID 1). The TS-262 and TS-264 have some interesting upgrades over that base model.
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#40It varies a lot, but for a while I had a Synology NAS + a simple AMD PC running Unraid, a lot of Docker containers and some VMs. But I realized I was mainly running services that are idle most of the time, and just doing some I/O the rest of the time. So I upgraded to a bigger Synology (and extra RAM) and moved all the stuff there. I still have a ton of containers and a few VMs, and the hardware is still overkill. I do have a pre-pandemic Raspberry Pi 4 that I use for stuff like Jellyfin and a surveillance cam.